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brigadier|brɪgəˈdɪə(r)|
Also 7 brigadeere.
[? a. Fr. brigadier (not in Cotgr. 1611), f. brigade: see above.]
1. More correctly brigadier-general: A military officer in command of a brigade; the status ranks between a major-general and a colonel, but is only local or temporary, being generally held by the senior colonel of the regiments or battalions brigaded together.
1678Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (1878) 162 It shall not rest upon him if I be not made a brigadeere. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2573/4 His Majesty sent Monsieur de la Meloniere, Brigadier-General, with 5 Regiments. 1703Ibid. 3916/1 He has appoint 4 Brigadiers General. 1809Wellington Let. in Gurw. Disp. IV. 484, I appointed Colonel Low to be a Brigadier General. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 3 Officers serving on the Staff in the capacity of Brigadier-Generals are to take Rank..from their Commissions as Colonels in the Army, not from the dates of their appointments as Brigadiers.
†2. brigadier-wig: see quot. Obs.
c1770J. Granger's Lett. (1805) 280 A full wig tied back in one curl is a Major, in two curls is a Brigadier. 1772Graves Spirit. Quix. iii. xiii. (D.) A man..in a brigadier wig and grave habit. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. li, He..pushed back his brigadier wig. |
